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My dear Mother Your letters of Sept. 29 & Oct. 19th 1863 I rec'd on the 2nd. These are the first letters I have had from home since May 63 and they were very wellcome. Those letters written since Cousin Margy left the South will not reach you, some were destroyed and the rest were so directed that they could only reach you while residing in San Francisco. I have written a great number of letters since I came South and shall continue to write by every chance. I expect soon to go West to join John H. Morgan's corps. and I may get a position. I have friends who know [illeg.] and who will do all they can for me. Prospects are better now than since I reached "Dixie's fair land." I will have fewer opportunities than ever for transmitting letters after I go West but I will do all in my power to write so as to remove any anxiety you may have on my account.

My dear Mother Your letters of Sept. 29 & Oct. 19th 1863 I rec'd on the 2nd. These are the first letters I have had from home since May 63 and they were very wellcome. Those letters written since Cousin Margy left the South will not reach you, some were destroyed and the rest were so directed that they could only reach you while residing in San Francisco. I have written a great number of letters since I came South and shall continue to write by every chance. I expect soon to go West to join John H. Morgan's corps. and I may get a position. I have friends who know [illeg.] and who will do all they can for me. Prospects are better now than since I reached "Dixie's fair land." I will have fewer opportunities than ever for transmitting letters after I go West but I will do all in my power to write so as to remove any anxiety you may have on my account.